Scottish Parliament

Written Answers

Friday 27 August 1999

Scottish Executive

Health

Andrew Wilson (Central Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what was the value of land transferred out of public ownership in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Private Finance Initiative agreement.

Susan Deacon: The excess sites sold to Morrison Construction Limited as part of the Private Finance Initiative contract for the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, namely the City, Princess Margaret Rose and Dental Hospitals were valued by the District Valuer at between £10m and £11.5m and by the Trust’s property advisers, Ryden International, at £10.85m. The valuations were detailed in the Full Business Case Addendum published earlier this year by the Trust.

Housing

Bristow Muldoon (Livingston) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what the average rent was per household in 1997/8 for a) each local authority, and b) each housing association with more than 1000 units.

Ms Wendy Alexander: The information requested is shown in the table below.

  

Local Authority
Average Weekly Rent £


Housing Association


Average Weekly Rent £




Aberdeen City
27.75 

Abertay 

31.18 



Aberdeenshire
29.75 

Albyn 

32.74 



Angus
25.14 

Almond 

37.02 



Argyll & Bute
35.05 

Berwickshire 

28.56 



Clackmannanshire
29.48 

Bield 

31.59 



Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
36.79 

Cairn 

33.86 



Dumfries & Galloway
32.62 

Canmore 

42.43 



Dundee City
36.42 

Castle Rock 

36.23 



East Ayrshire
26.95 

Castlehill 

30.30 



East Dumbartonshire
29.76 

Clyde Valley 

41.79 



East Lothian
28.87 

Cube 

40.62 



East Renfrewshire
28.64 

Edinvar 

39.05 



Edinburgh City
45.35 

Eildon 

30.13 



Falkirk
29.44 

Elderpark 

33.65 



Fife
30.11 

Fife Special 

38.59 



Glasgow
40.23 

Gap 

36.10 



Highland
38.37 

Govanhill 

29.07 



Inverclyde
34.58 

Grampian 

41.38 



Midlothian
25.20 

Hanover (Scotland) 

32.48 



Moray
27.75 

Hillcrest 

33.72 



North Ayrshire
30.22 

Irvine 

36.60 



North Lanarkshire
31.14 

Kingdom 

36.74 



Orkney
33.20 

Kirk Care 

35.76 



Perth & Kinross
28.19 

Knowes 

38.22 



Renfrewshire
32.45 

Langstane 

38.36 



Scottish Borders
29.57 

Link 

35.78 



Shetland Islands
35.94 

Linstone 

38.64 



South Ayrshire
31.69 

Loreburn 

35.52 



South Lanarkshire
35.47 

Margaret Blackwood 

38.59 



Stirling
34.05 

Melville 

47.66 



West Dumbartonshire
32.93 

Parkhead 

32.19 



West Lothian
32.07 

Partick 

32.50 



 
 
Port of Leith 

40.93 



 
 
Queens Cross 

34.77 



 
 
Reidvale 

30.86 



 
 
Servite 

32.68 



 
 
Shettleston 

30.37 



 
 
Shire 

40.78 



 
 
Springburn & Possilpark


37.89 



 
 
Thenew 

36.62 



 
 
Viewpoint 

35.22 



 
 
West of Scotland 

31.25 



 
 
Whiteinch & Scotstoun


36.88